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China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Beijing’s commerce ministry has formally submitted a 30-page document warning the European Commission that its draft Cybersecurity Act, which would make vendor removal mandatory for the first time, could trigger reciprocal measures against European …

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mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Munich techbio company is developing a live bacterial product designed to enhance immune checkpoint inhibitor response in advanced melanoma, with a Phase 1B study planned for 2027 mbiomics GmbH, a Munich-based techbio company developing microbio…

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AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Founded by a former Atomico talent adviser, Dex charges employers agency fees only on successful hires, and has gone from zero to $1.8 million ARR in under six months of charging. Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 Europea…

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GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM’s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announ…

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Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The deal, Cognizant’s fourth major acquisition in 18 months, is designed to plug a specific gap in its AI builder strategy: the ability to design, build, and run the physical data centre infrastructure that enterprise AI actually runs on. Cognizant …

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Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Spanish solar developer is betting that co-locating renewable generation with battery storage adjacent to data centres is the answer to AI’s power hunger, and investors are oversubscribed at 6.7x. Europe has a data centre problem. Electricity gr…

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EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The collapse of Tuesday’s trilogue exposes deep divisions over whether high-risk AI systems embedded in consumer products should be exempt from the world’s strictest AI rules After 12 hours of negotiations on Tuesday, EU member states and European P…

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Amadeus agrees to buy IDEMIA’s public security unit for $1.2 billion

woensdag 29 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The deal would give the Spanish travel technology company a global footprint in biometric border control, airport identity systems, and law enforcement fingerprint databases A passenger boarding a flight at one of the world’s 250 airports equipped w…

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South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a Nationa…

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OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall St…

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Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Elon Musk told a federal jury on Tuesday that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders is not about him. “It is not okay to steal a charity, that’s my view,” Musk said from the witness stand in Oakland, California, in his first testimony under…

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Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day. The line it drew is not the one its employees asked for.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Google has signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its Gemini AI models for classified military work under terms that permit “any lawful government purpose,” the company confirmed on Tuesday, one day after more than 580 Google employees signed a …

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“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

“Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the defendants in this case stole a charity.” That was how Steven Molo, Elon Musk’s lead trial lawyer, opened the most consequential technology trial in a generation on Tuesday morning in an Oakland f…

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Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, an open-weight multimodal AI model that unifies vision, audio, and language understanding in a single architecture designed to power autonomous AI agents on edge devices. The model has 30 billion para…

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OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Amazon Web Services will begin selling OpenAI’s models to its cloud customers, the company announced on Tuesday, one day after Microsoft agreed to end the exclusive reselling arrangement that had given Azure sole access to OpenAI’s technology for th…

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True Anomaly raised $1 billion to build weapons for a programme the Pentagon has not committed to building

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

True Anomaly, the Colorado-based startup that builds autonomous spacecraft for orbital combat, has raised $650 million in Series D funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, bringing total capital raised to $1 billion since its founding in August 2022. Th…

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Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The new name unifies what was previously fragmented across Freepik (stock assets), Magnific (AI upscaling), and several other products. One million paying subscribers. 250 enterprise customers, including BBC, Puma, and Amazon Prime Video. CEO Joaquí…

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True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles can manoeuvre near other satellites in orbit for inspection, space situational awareness, and, under Golden Dome, potential interception of ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Total funding now exceed…

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Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next. Marloo…

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Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

97% of Accenture employees report Copilot helped complete routine tasks up to 15 times faster. 89% monthly active usage among the 200,000-person cohort tested. Microsoft has over 450 million M365 enterprise users; only ~3% currently pay $30/month fo…

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Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

3TS Capital Partners led the round with Grazia Equity and existing investors. 25,000 users, 85% daily wear rate, 500,000+ emergency calls handled. The company is building an AI companion for the watch to address loneliness in the hours when no famil…

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